Swimming & v short sighted

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What do people find best - goggles over contact lenses, or prescription goggles? And if anyone has any brand recommendations that'd be great too! Thanks

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I presume that if you're wearing your glasses you're not doing the front crawl - or even an energetic breast stroke? Which does make me wonder what the benefit of your swimming actually is? Sorry if that sounds rude, but how on earth can you swim properly with your glasses on?

Laser eye surgery!

I’ve got prescription goggles from...Prescription Goggles as linked to by CMOTDibbler above - really not very expensive and find to swim in. I’m something like -3.75 and -3.5.

FINE to swim in

I just wear my glasses. I've had too many contact lenses float away in the pool due to splashing and it's not fair on the other swimmers.

I used to use goggles over daily disposables because you couldn’t get goggles up to -10

I tried with nothing before. Ended up in the men’s changing rooms. Seems that even at -10 I could still spot a cock!

Dh just wears cheap goggles from eBay, usually less than £5 as he frequently loses them

I'm a minus 9.
I use goggles.

He is around -8 and astigmatic. They don't fix the astigmatism but it is enough for him to be able to see.

So you're saying that unless you do a certain speed of swimming or stroke then there's no benefit?! You've got to be kidding me.

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This is an interesting thread. I think I'll go for prescription goggles and make sure they're comfortable ones. My immune system is compromised and an eye infection would not be good. Didn't realise how bad an eye infection could be! Thanks all.

I use prescription goggles - I can't wear contacts. How on earth do you swim with glasses on? Unless you do backstroke the whole time surely they get soaked from your head being underwater?

I use aquagoggles.com they're Canadian.

I’m -6 and -8, indigo wear contacts at all due to a history of various eye infections, I wear these. They are plenty comfortable for a few hours and don’t steam up like cheaper ones.

If you are immunocompromised then very definitely prescription gogs. Eye infections gleaned from pools (and other places) can cause blindness. I have a fully functioning immune system but was overwhelmed with bacteria. Ugh.

Prescription goggles are great. Can buy online or they sell them in spec savers. Not cheap but so worth it!

Goggles over disposables and I take them out when I get out the pool. It makes for a challenging wander around the supermarket afterwards.

But in the sea I don't wear the goggles as I need to see the dc's clearly. I just do wussy breaststroke and don't even get my hair or face wet .

Please don't swim in contacts. Google Acanthamoeba keratitis - really not worth the risk, even if it is not a hugely high risk . Just awful potential conequences! I'm -5.75 and -4.75 so very similar to you and get on really well with my prescription goggles... I do sometimes feel mildly anxious on the poolside relying on them for vision but once I'm swimming am fine. I'm confident enough now to manage to take the kids swimming by myself when wearing them (after a bit of getting used to them!) Or laser surgery as suggested above (I haven't been brave enough yet!)